Reasons Why PDP Presidential Ticket Could Be Given To Wike Despite Atiku’s Victory – Party Stalwart Speaks

Reasons Why PDP Presidential Ticket Could Be Given To Wike Despite Atiku’s Victory – Party Stalwart Speaks

PDP stalwart, Chief Jonathan Sunday Akuns has given reasons why the party’s presidential ticket could eventually be given to Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State.

In a chat with The Guardian on the recent PDP presidential primary, Akuns, who contested the Plateau State governorship ticket, said the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) made a fundamental mistake by not amending the PDP constitution when it decided to neglect zoning and throw the contest open.

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He said: “NWC’s decision cannot nullify the party’s constitution on rotation between the north and south. The court will disqualify whoever emerges from the north zone under this arrangement.

“Recall that at the last election (2019), the party zoned the presidency to the north, and no southerner participated. Of course, you know that after the Amaechi/Omehia replacement saga that went up to the Supreme Court, the electoral process has been amended, requiring whoever will be replaced by the court to follow the primary electoral process to the end.”

He noted further: “Wike got the highest votes among the southern candidates. So, with the current position of Wike in the contest, he is in a position to successfully challenge the outcome of the primary in court.

“Wike cannot leave PDP now. He must remain in PDP and seek the court’s interpretation of the zoning clause in the party’s constitution vis-à-vis the NWC’s decision to throw it open. I believe the party constitution is supreme and superior to the NWC’s decision.”

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